Red Rover, Red Rover let the BOMBERS come OVER!

Well, I guess the LA Times is good for something other than fish wrap and bird cage liner.

At this link you will find a story about Greg Harbin, the guy they credit with getting a device known as Rover to be able to receive data from targeting pods mounted on attack aircraft.

What is interesting to note...to me anyway... in the article, at the bottom of the wood pile is of course, a Warrant Officer.

...The Rover, or the Remote Operations Video Enhanced Receiver, was born in 2002, shortly after the Afghanistan war began.

Christopher Manuel, an Army Special Forces chief warrant officer, had long wanted ground units to see, in real time, the video footage shot by Predators. After serving in Afghanistan, he traveled to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio to make his case. Engineers quickly developed a prototype of the Rover system.

Over the next year, it was used exclusively by special operations forces...

Also interesting to me was that when some of us common folk Army aviators brought up the subject of adapting Rover to attack helicopters before we arrived in theater last year we were shouted down, abruptly. Yeah, none of us really have any idea of what we are talking about.

For more of the article GO HERE!